Warp and Weft is a progressive folk album of songs about the Lancashire Cotton Famine. It features poems from the time collected by University of Exeter, as well as original songs by the band.
Cath Rogan says “As soon as we heard about the poems we wanted to do something about the Cotton Famine, it’s a piece of working class history which doesn’t get taught in schools and is largely forgotten.”
@CottonFaminePoetry tweeted that they were "Very happy that @Motheroforder1 are working to let people hear these century-and-a-half-old words from Lancashire."
Devonbird – Kath Bird (Vocals/Guitar), Sophia Colkin (Fiddle) and Rob Wheaton (Vocals/Guitar) show their wide and versatile range and their passion for folk music, both original and traditional. The band has been described as having a clarity and purity of sound, vocally and instrumentally, which is both profoundly soul touching and magical. For their second studio recorded album, “Turning of the Year”, they teamed up with well known folk producer Mark Tucker. The album is a mixture of hard hitting original songs such as Dead Kings Land, combined with such haunting folk songs as Rose or...
Guitarist and singer-songwriter Chantel McGregor will release her highly anticipated new album, Lose Control, on Friday 9th October 2015 on her independent boutique label Tis Rock Music, The new album is the follow up to her critically acclaimed 2011 debut solo album, Like No Other.
The great news for rock fans, live music lovers and aspiring musicians in and around Exeter, is that Chantel will be playing with her band at Exeter Phoenix on Tuesday 27th October; the 20th date of her 29 day Lose Control Tour!
After four years of touring and festival appearances, Chantel...
An effortlessly lazy third album from tousled Canadian blue-waver DeMarco, Salad Days sees a daydreaming melange of lulling guitars glazed with Sunday morning vocals delivered through a hungover smile.
Opening track ‘Salad Days’ is an upbeat lament similarly as ‘Let Her Go’ carries a sunshine feel despite lyrical sadness.
Lo-Fi and nonchalant, the record is brushed with psychedelic tones with ‘Brother’ and stand out track ‘Chamber of Reflection’ exercising this with much of a continuation of the sounds heard on 2012’s ‘2’.
